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exhort all the good people of the united states. as they love their country, as they feel wrong that they exert themselves. madison's call made clear that the expectation of showing love of country required giving support to the war. at a moment of national crisis, patriotism was needed. he sought to justify the conflict to the population at large and motivate the country to support the war. the stakes were high because although a majority in congress voted in favor of declaring the war not one single member of the federalist party voted in support of the war. the ticket very skeptical view of the war, far more so than did southern and western members of the democratic republican party that madison was leading. ostensibly a conflict with britain over the national sovereignty the american war of 1812 dirty quickly became a test or addition. a test of the strengths meaning of american patriotism. we have to forget about the war of 1812 losing track between the glory of the revolution of the independence movement and the transformative
exhort all the good people of the united states. as they love their country, as they feel wrong that they exert themselves. madison's call made clear that the expectation of showing love of country required giving support to the war. at a moment of national crisis, patriotism was needed. he sought to justify the conflict to the population at large and motivate the country to support the war. the stakes were high because although a majority in congress voted in favor of declaring the war not one...
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patriotism of popular culture and the new united states. to 19, 1812, james madison made an announcement of the first were to be declared in the history of the united states. "i exhorts all the good people of the united states as they love their country, as they feel wronged that they exert themselves." and made clear the expectation of showing love of country requires giving support to the war. of a moment of national crisis, patriotism was needed. he fell to justify the conflict to motivate the country to support the war. the stakes were high because although a majority had voted in favor of for not one single member of the federalist party voted to support it. the northeastern federalist took a skeptical view more than seven and western members of the democratic republican party. a conflict with britain over national sovereignty, the american war of 1812 became of test of the strength and meeting of american patriotism. we tend to forget the word 1812 between the revolutionary independence movement and trans formative carnage of the civi
patriotism of popular culture and the new united states. to 19, 1812, james madison made an announcement of the first were to be declared in the history of the united states. "i exhorts all the good people of the united states as they love their country, as they feel wronged that they exert themselves." and made clear the expectation of showing love of country requires giving support to the war. of a moment of national crisis, patriotism was needed. he fell to justify the conflict to...
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the first trip to the united states which is here. december 1987 to sign the intermediate nuclear forces treaty and there's the big reception at the soviet embassy for gorbachev. cannon had been kicked out of the soviet union by stalin in 1952, is invited to come to the soviet embassy to meet gorbachev and corporate of immediately recognized him, embraced him and pays him an extraordinarily handsome tribute which kennan always remembered. it was something like this. mr. kennan, we in our country and its stand that someone can be a patriots in another country but at the same time be a great friend of our country and that is how we regard you. just the right thing to have said. whereupon there was a very long gorbachev speech. george sat down at a table with a lot of other luminaries. he was seated next to his strange looking woman who had purple long fingernails and was smoking a cigarette, chain-smoking. goerge's hearing was beginning to go. this was 1987 but someone told him he is the widow of lenin. how could she be the widow of len
the first trip to the united states which is here. december 1987 to sign the intermediate nuclear forces treaty and there's the big reception at the soviet embassy for gorbachev. cannon had been kicked out of the soviet union by stalin in 1952, is invited to come to the soviet embassy to meet gorbachev and corporate of immediately recognized him, embraced him and pays him an extraordinarily handsome tribute which kennan always remembered. it was something like this. mr. kennan, we in our...
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[laughter] i can of fact is exxon and wal-mart are now the largest people in the united states. but the average american is catching up. citizens united people are corporations. much ado about the decision summarized what you'd expect to find in the trial 10 heston fell. a complicated position but citizens united of businesses to stop putting politician on layaway and star purchasing them out right from bet bath and beyond. the side effect of turning 30 million businesses and to people overnight is the 10 percent increase of the population already reeling from high unemployment. who will care for the new humans? is small business has the legal protection given to doors? can abercrombie and fitch get married? to defense target from the nra? if not met in the current infrastructure we have to reduce the actual number two at require an official part to become corporations. according to the henderson family we have already begun a program to help mrs. henderson transition her household. this is the memo to the members of the henderson family from mom. night of the current financial
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they know the united states doesn't want to go into it and for good reason by the way. we don't understand the landscape and the opposition is fragmented and divided. before we went in a bit wind we have supported the opposition groups in afghanistan in the 1980s because of the soviet occupation and what happened with the taliban that came back to vita bite us so we have to understand certainly anything like that. and it's just a different situation than libya, completely different. syria is a much tougher nut to crack, much more complex in so many different ways. and so he knows that and so as long as there is no chemical weapons and i don't think they would use it and must it's the last regime about to go out. they want to elicit's saddam tried to do in that 1991 gulf war with rockets in israel trying to turn a persian gulf war into an arab-israeli one shifting the loyalty. that is the danger and that is something that the israeli u.s. policymakers and others are concerned about. the only problem with that is that when you unleash this blood lit you cannot carefully c
they know the united states doesn't want to go into it and for good reason by the way. we don't understand the landscape and the opposition is fragmented and divided. before we went in a bit wind we have supported the opposition groups in afghanistan in the 1980s because of the soviet occupation and what happened with the taliban that came back to vita bite us so we have to understand certainly anything like that. and it's just a different situation than libya, completely different. syria is a...
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poster wanted to come to the united states? >> guest: i came to the united states in 1985. in may of 1985 i was nine and a half, going on 10. >> host: what can you tell us about coming to the united states? what was your track? >> guest: well, i'd been separated from my father for eight years come this when he to mexico, my siblings and i convinced him to bring us back here because he wasn't going to come back to mexico and we didn't want to spend any more time separated from him. so we take him to bring us here. my father didn't want to bring me because i was nine and a half and he thought it would be able to make it across the border because we had to run across illegally. so i begged him to bring me here and we took a bus from mexico city to tijuana. >> host: right on the border. just go right on the border. and it was a very long today best night because i had rarely been in any kind of cars or any public transportation and i got car sick many, many times along the way. but when we got to the border, my father hired a smuggler to bring us across. >> host: what you burde
poster wanted to come to the united states? >> guest: i came to the united states in 1985. in may of 1985 i was nine and a half, going on 10. >> host: what can you tell us about coming to the united states? what was your track? >> guest: well, i'd been separated from my father for eight years come this when he to mexico, my siblings and i convinced him to bring us back here because he wasn't going to come back to mexico and we didn't want to spend any more time separated from...
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gave it to the united states government during world war ii. and, so he was, he had the, is one of the greatest collection of coins and stamps. so he really made a mark to himself. yeah? >> [inaudible]. one of the things that strikes me about the guilded age and the wealth were a lot of wealthy people who believed in give back to society, particularly someone like andrew carnegie. did she donate any of her money to public service >> she never did it publicly and dismissed that she had. her son shade there were plenty of people she gave to. she never wanted it known. she was hounded for her money. she was constantly getting letters beseeching her for money. yeah, so she tried to keep it as quiet as possible. there is no proof, there is no proof. because other people said it at the time, she had a very close friend whose name is ann leery who lived in the neighborhood her who was a great catholic philanthropist. she became a papal countess, i never knew about the title but that is how generous she was and i think she got hetty to give some money
gave it to the united states government during world war ii. and, so he was, he had the, is one of the greatest collection of coins and stamps. so he really made a mark to himself. yeah? >> [inaudible]. one of the things that strikes me about the guilded age and the wealth were a lot of wealthy people who believed in give back to society, particularly someone like andrew carnegie. did she donate any of her money to public service >> she never did it publicly and dismissed that she...
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sometimes i have to explain who george kennan was because he was never president of the united states. he was never secretary of state. his highest level position in government of the as ambassador to the soviet union and to
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john allen of the united states? marine corps the top? commander of all nato and coalition troops ?? afghanistan??????? perhaps the single most landlocked country in the world with the possible exception of? chad. the reason is the marines have? expanded their missions and??? their role in national defense. so yes, it doesn't seem right. why are they called the reason for fighting and not?????? afghanistan?? posts go wide underdogs????? ?at you call this doctrine? t? >> guest: the marines have a nickname for themselves, which is double dogs from world war i. but really the best term to describe how the marines thought of themselves as underdogs. they were always a minority culture. they were just a very small institution instead the larger defense establishment of the always felt from the beginning to be persecuted and under threat, under siege by the army and navy. i'm very worried would attempt to reduce the numbers can reduce their funding or even abolished on our right. so the single most important characteris
john allen of the united states? marine corps the top? commander of all nato and coalition troops ?? afghanistan??????? perhaps the single most landlocked country in the world with the possible exception of? chad. the reason is the marines have? expanded their missions and??? their role in national defense. so yes, it doesn't seem right. why are they called the reason for fighting and not?????? afghanistan?? posts go wide underdogs????? ?at you call this doctrine? t?...
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the case relates to my book in 1861 the believe in the united states and the union confederacy is that you don't really need a professional military expertise. that's how the army got so small that in times of crisis good citizen soldiers will step forward and through their kind of virtue they will find a way and they will defeat because the of freedom and they have courage on their side and happens very quickly has become increasingly clear that in fact the war and military affairs retire the body of systematic professional, a lot of issues of competence that are not directly related to justice or perceptions of justice or even bravery and west pointers are there for the positions people that have that concrete military expertise. they therefore have to build it on the fly and in the north it causes a lot of problems because they are politically, you know we would see less enthusiastic with our emancipation but it's the most important it simply and then the political leadership especially in the north becomes increasingly suspicious partly because they know their politics are differen
the case relates to my book in 1861 the believe in the united states and the union confederacy is that you don't really need a professional military expertise. that's how the army got so small that in times of crisis good citizen soldiers will step forward and through their kind of virtue they will find a way and they will defeat because the of freedom and they have courage on their side and happens very quickly has become increasingly clear that in fact the war and military affairs retire the...
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they are probably the two smartest people in the united states, but i think that bill clinton couldn't make up his mind. he would make a decision and then reverse it. he was up until 3:00 in the morning debating these things. barack obama doesn't work that way. she gets all of these opinions, he hands them out and he has a sense of what his timeframe is to make a decision and then he makes the decision. so, they're very different in their style. that is why the white house was frequently chaotic. >> as sort of a follow-up to your question but to the response if she is a bridge builder again sometimes they do better i won't say behind the scenes but less in the front. how does that jive with media president who isn't necessarily a bridge builder that needs to be a leader is shia more capable leader or more capable bridge builder? >> i think we know the answer to that question. i would say that here are the different models of the president. fdr began as a consensus and president to try to create by partisanship and then by 1934 from 35, the league started and people become very, very pa
they are probably the two smartest people in the united states, but i think that bill clinton couldn't make up his mind. he would make a decision and then reverse it. he was up until 3:00 in the morning debating these things. barack obama doesn't work that way. she gets all of these opinions, he hands them out and he has a sense of what his timeframe is to make a decision and then he makes the decision. so, they're very different in their style. that is why the white house was frequently...
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another region leftist, john walsh criticized the united states senator scott brown, criticized him in a television ad for the laundry because he was trying to be an honoree girl. how about that? you're not supposed to say that sort of thing. bill more has called sarah palin every man in the book and michele bachman every name in the book he read a david letterman has done it. my favorite, chris matthews has done it again and again and again. insulting women. they called her mentally retarded. they attacked sarah palin's daughter and she was 14. give me a break. nothing ever happened. it is profound hypocrisy and that is a theme that runs through my book is how incredibly hypocritical the left has been in ripping this country apart. claiming to be the great champions and defender of women yet they would only defined liberal women and their policies or systematically wreaking havoc on the very groups they claim to be championing. women is the perfect example. the highest poverty rate as a result of the absurd economic policies of this administration. the job killing policies of this adm
another region leftist, john walsh criticized the united states senator scott brown, criticized him in a television ad for the laundry because he was trying to be an honoree girl. how about that? you're not supposed to say that sort of thing. bill more has called sarah palin every man in the book and michele bachman every name in the book he read a david letterman has done it. my favorite, chris matthews has done it again and again and again. insulting women. they called her mentally retarded....
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so the quibble is he mentioned in passing that human cloning is banned in the united states. back to my knowledge is just not true. federal funding is prohibited from going to human cloning and the same way under the dickey wicker, other programs -- >> you may be correct on that. my knowledge is that cloning for the purpose of creating a new human being is illegal. that was my understanding of it. am i not right about that? >> i'm happy to chat some more afterwards. >> there was a moratorium on it, but i don't think it's been banned. >> there's no law against it. >> thank you for correcting that. >> so want to linger with little more on the bioethics site now, you know, one of my problems with the kind of pro-science, anti-science rubric that a few other people have quibbled with comes from looking at what the policies are better described as being pro-science or anti-science. see you presented president obama stem cell policy to give a summary of president bush's stem cell policy, which is your birthday noted was derided at the time by a critic, including many scientists act
so the quibble is he mentioned in passing that human cloning is banned in the united states. back to my knowledge is just not true. federal funding is prohibited from going to human cloning and the same way under the dickey wicker, other programs -- >> you may be correct on that. my knowledge is that cloning for the purpose of creating a new human being is illegal. that was my understanding of it. am i not right about that? >> i'm happy to chat some more afterwards. >> there...
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both diverse and then like citizens united, over rules state laws for giving money for elections. so that's why we've got to get a very, very fundamental effort here. public funding of public campaigns. and a lot of the money people race could be replaced by giving them a certain amount of free time unlicensed radio and television stations. that is we give them the license free to use our property 20 hours a day. they get it free. we could say no, no, you have to now get a certain amount of free time before elections to ballot qualified candidates. that will reduce a lot of the pressure to raise more and more money because that's where a lot of it goes. yes. >> i wanted to thank you for bringing up the united states health use of drones against so many of our close friends. [inaudible] but on this piece, every so often you have used the 2000 people per congressional constituency. and i ain't that's a really powerful idea. and i am wondering, have i missed, and the things that i have read and what you have written, is there an organization helping us do that? is there soft water or
both diverse and then like citizens united, over rules state laws for giving money for elections. so that's why we've got to get a very, very fundamental effort here. public funding of public campaigns. and a lot of the money people race could be replaced by giving them a certain amount of free time unlicensed radio and television stations. that is we give them the license free to use our property 20 hours a day. they get it free. we could say no, no, you have to now get a certain amount of...
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so the quibble is you mentioned in passing that human cloning is banned in the united states. that, to my knowledge, is just not true. federal funding is prohibited from going to human cloning in the way there are under the -- [inaudible] other. >> i -- you may be correct on that. my knowledge is that cloning for the purpose of creating a new human being is illegal. that was my understanding of it. >> nope. >> am any not right about that? >> i'm happy to chat more afterwards. >> the fact of the moratorium. it's been condemned. i don't think it's been . >> there's no . >> okay. >> no law against it. >> thank you for correcting me that's a correction. to linger on the bioethics side now. one of my problems with the kind of proscience antiscience rubric that a few other people have quibbled with, you know, it comes from, you know, looking at what the policies are that are being diabetessed proscience or antiscience. you presented president obama's stem cell policy and give a kind of summary of president bush's stem cell policy which you rightly noted was derided at the time by cr
so the quibble is you mentioned in passing that human cloning is banned in the united states. that, to my knowledge, is just not true. federal funding is prohibited from going to human cloning in the way there are under the -- [inaudible] other. >> i -- you may be correct on that. my knowledge is that cloning for the purpose of creating a new human being is illegal. that was my understanding of it. >> nope. >> am any not right about that? >> i'm happy to chat more...
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states was involved in the cold war against the soviet union. so states like mississippi, states like georgia, texas, arizona, and north carolina are being transformed in the post world war ii period by this historic shift in population and political influence. think about it. this really this period from 1964 to stwaight can be thought of as the period of sun belt dominance in american presidential history. if you think about every president elected from 1964 from 2012 comes from the state from the sun belt. richard nixon from california. gerald ford was never elected he doesn't count. he was from michigan. jimmy cart -- -- it end the forty years period of sun belt dominance. there were issues critical in the politics that go oned that came out of the sun belt. they tended to have a conservative cast to them. they tended to be oriented around issues of strong national defense of an opposition to unions and defense of free enterprise politics and it's in the sun belt in the south and southwest we see the rise by the 1970 would be coming to as at
states was involved in the cold war against the soviet union. so states like mississippi, states like georgia, texas, arizona, and north carolina are being transformed in the post world war ii period by this historic shift in population and political influence. think about it. this really this period from 1964 to stwaight can be thought of as the period of sun belt dominance in american presidential history. if you think about every president elected from 1964 from 2012 comes from the state...
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states. and as the years went by, he expanded that definition of subversive. in fact, no legal definition of subversive -- >> [inaudible] >> yes. >> one more document. >> let's see. where are you? >> you can see it up here. i have a hard copy of it. he, seth explains in his book one of the things the fbi did was they created a list of 15,000 people who were to be rounded up in the event of a national emergency. and they called it a security index. you get a security index card, and you might also have what they called an agitator index card that we believe the with it, and it's -- that went with that, and that's not a reference to a washing machine. [laughter] and i have one up here. that shows that i wasn't on the list. for my freedom of information request for my file. and went from actually over a number of years went from the second group to be rounded up to the third group and then they finally dropped it in 1975. but in 1975 in the wake of congressional hearings, a lot of these activiti
states. and as the years went by, he expanded that definition of subversive. in fact, no legal definition of subversive -- >> [inaudible] >> yes. >> one more document. >> let's see. where are you? >> you can see it up here. i have a hard copy of it. he, seth explains in his book one of the things the fbi did was they created a list of 15,000 people who were to be rounded up in the event of a national emergency. and they called it a security index. you get a...
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we'll have a conference, biggest in the united states. >> i was going to plug it so you do it. it's your conference. >> no -- >> it's great work. >> there's research happening, and we are showing it relieves pstd, end of life anxiety, we'll do this in a sophisticated way. >> it was leery primarily responsible, i think, for the crack down on scientific research, not just the overall war on drugs, but, you know -- >> had a lot to do with it. >> yeah because -- >> [inaudible] the culture was not ready for it. the timing of your book is tremendous. >> thank you. >> we need to be looking at these things to figure out lessons of that to make it so it doesn't have a backlash. >> it's taken a half century almost. >> 19 years in the u.s. in april, 15th and 18th in san jose. people from all over the world talking about psychedelics. >> do you have literature? >> we do. >> yeah. >> thank you. [laughter] >> just as a throw out, later started a bunch of things, one of which was called prison project, nothing to do necessarily with psychedelics, but it did all of the other comp -- compliment
we'll have a conference, biggest in the united states. >> i was going to plug it so you do it. it's your conference. >> no -- >> it's great work. >> there's research happening, and we are showing it relieves pstd, end of life anxiety, we'll do this in a sophisticated way. >> it was leery primarily responsible, i think, for the crack down on scientific research, not just the overall war on drugs, but, you know -- >> had a lot to do with it. >> yeah...
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called it the oregon territory, it was actual washington state. and he led some small unit operations along the columbia river, and he also managed an indian reservation on the pacific coast of oregon too. so he had some experience there. but he started out small, in mississippi he was given command of a cavalry regiment, and then he evidently just showed his abilities, training and what little experience he had. he'd been in the army a long time by then, you know? yes. >> had he ever faced forest or morgan in cavalry battles? >> no. no, he department. the only cavalry he commanded was under the army of the potomac and then the army of the shenandoah in virginia. when he was in the west, he was in charge of an infantry division, stone's river and missionary ridge. yes. >> you covered quite a range of history. do you have another book in mind? >> yes. i'm working on a civil war book, actually. it's kind of more focused on the 40 days grant's overland campaign through northern virginia, that bloody campaign against lee. wilderness, cold harbor and t
called it the oregon territory, it was actual washington state. and he led some small unit operations along the columbia river, and he also managed an indian reservation on the pacific coast of oregon too. so he had some experience there. but he started out small, in mississippi he was given command of a cavalry regiment, and then he evidently just showed his abilities, training and what little experience he had. he'd been in the army a long time by then, you know? yes. >> had he ever...
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instead of going once a month to do what you do and take care of the problems in the united states, you're being demarked for identification. -- deployed to afghanistan or iraq. so they are less prepared for what they see and again, would you like me to tell you something about the kind of scene they have in combat? >> host: what do they say? >> guest: well they face a number of things and one of the things that they face there is no front line. they don't know who the enemy is. they have no idea. and, they may be in a crowd where people are standing together talking, and okay, they're speaking in another language, and they say one thing and they will tell us we're so glad to here to help us and the other language is something else. all of a sudden, boom, it is a person in the crowd, may even be a child, that you least expect. so that's one. there's a language problem. again, another issue of the language problem is, a car drives by and a soldier on patrol says, stop. well, do you understand stop in arabic? no. so the car goes on. the soldier, is required of him, shoot, through the car win
instead of going once a month to do what you do and take care of the problems in the united states, you're being demarked for identification. -- deployed to afghanistan or iraq. so they are less prepared for what they see and again, would you like me to tell you something about the kind of scene they have in combat? >> host: what do they say? >> guest: well they face a number of things and one of the things that they face there is no front line. they don't know who the enemy is....